The School Nutrition Environment

Key Resources

Show Me the Money: A Guide to Selling Healthy Food at Schools
A toolkit for helping schools overcome challenges they experience when implementing healthy food guidelines in their nutrition services, school stores, fundraising events, and vending machines. Includes a one page overview and a flyer.

Changing the Scene: Improving the School Nutrition Environment
USDA

Improving the School Nutrition Environment: A Guide for Change (PDF)
Children's Alliance

Helping Students Make Better Food Choices in School (PDF)
Action for Healthy Kids (2006)

Promoting a Healthy School Environment Internet Kits
Resources from the Maine Nutrition Network designed to tie the classroom to the cafeteria to promote a healthy school environment. There are ten kits on different themes that can be used each month during the school year.

Nutritional Integrity in Schools (PDF)
Center for Science in the Public Interest report. Discusses the current state of nutrition in schools across the country, and identifies schools that have improved the nutritional value of foods sold. (2005)

The association of the school food environment with dietary behaviors of young adolescents (Abstract) | American Cancer Society Summary
Kubik MY, Lytle LA, Hannan PJ, Perry CL, Story M. Am J Public Health 2003 Jul;93(7):1168-73.